Note: Ka-Zar was obviously a shameless attempt to profit from the popularity of
Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, a character from an earlier era, who
in the 1930's achieved wider public notoriety in a series of motion pictures.

After a brief run of three pulp magazines, Ka-Zar seemed destined for oblivion, until publisher Martin Goodman
decided to get into the comics business and was looking for characters for his new Marvel Comics magazine.
Ka-Zar appeared in multiple issues of the title renamed Marvel Mystery Comics with its second issue. When
the comics industry took an eventually downturn so did Ka-Zar's career, until conceptually he was revived in the
pages of the X-Men with a new name and revamped origin.

David Rand was born in South Africa in the early 20th Century to British parents, John and Constance.
On a flight to Cairo to visit Rand's grandfather, the plane crashed in the Congo. Injured, Constance died and John
slowly grew insane. Living in the jungle with his father, isolated from local tribes, Rand grew under the hardships
of the jungle into a powerful youth; developing a strong empathy with wildlife. Rescuing a lion known as Zar from a
quicksand pit, Rand's reputation as a warrior earned him the name, Brother of the Lion -
Ka-Zar.

Ka-Zar II

British scientist Lord Robert Plunder discovered a deposit of "Anti-Metal," an isotope of the rare element
Vibranium, in a hidden jungle within a mountain range of Antarctica. With the death of his wife, Plunder returned
to England where his discoveries in the Savage Land made him the target of foreign agents. Hiding his son Parnival,
Lord Plunder returned to the Savage Land with his son Kevin. When Lord Plunder was killed by the primitive Man-Apes,
Kevin was soon to be doomed if not for the intervention of the saber-toothed tiger, Zabu. When Maa-Gor, the leader
of the Man-Apes, attempted to kill Zabu, the young Plunder used his father's rifle to shoot Maa-Gor. Along with Zabu,
Plunder fled into the "Place of Mist" a region held as taboo and feared by the Man-Apes. Growing into manhood in the
Savage Land, Plunder became exceptionally powerful and learned the secrets held within the lost jungle land - earning
the name Son of the Tiger - Ka-Zar.